Check-lock for cars.



PATENTED APR, 28, 1908.

V in. s'. BUGHBR. CHECK LOCK FONAES. P PEIGTION FILED SEPT. a. 1907.

@qw/lneas @a HENRY S. BOUCHER, OF GLADE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK-LOCK FOR CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 28, 1908.4

Application filed September 9, 1907. Serial No. 392,028.

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This invention has relation to new and useful improvements in check locks for mine or' other cars, and has for its object to provide simple and inex ensive means of this character, whereby lability of checks becoming lost or stolen is obviated.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combination of parts illustrated' in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended-claims.

In the accompanying drawingszFigure 1 is' an elevation of a portion of one side of al car with the check lock in position, looking from the outside; and Fig. 2 is a similar view looking from the inside of the car; Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view cut on the line -3 of Fig. 1, the operating lever swung outwardly; and Fig. 4 is a similar view, the operating lever in its normal position.

Referring to the drawings for a more particular description of the invention, thenumeral 1 indicates a ortion of one side ofa car and 2 a plate ofD preferably rectangular form of steel or other suitable metal, fastened to the outer face thereof.

A locking member 3 preferably in the form of a hook is arranged to have its shank 4' work through corresponding transverse openings in the (plate 2, and the adjacent side of the car, an its outer curved or hooked end through a corresponding aperture or opening in said plate, and ina registering recess in the adjacent side of the car 1. The casing or hood 4 is fastened to the inner face of the side of the car to which the plate 2is attached in position to receive the inner or shanked end of the locking member. This casing also constitutes a bearing for an operating lever 5 which is pivoted within and near the lower end of the same, near its upper outwardly bent end 6, which end is connected in any manner found most desirable to the inner or shank end of the locking member 3. A suitable catch 6 is arranged to engage the `free end of the locking lever to hold it against movement for the purpose to be specied. i

In p ractice the free end of the llocking lever is swung upwardly to cause the outer or hook end of the locking member 3 to move outwardly to receive the check 7. After the check has been'placed in position, the free `end of the lever is swung inwardly to its initial position, which causes the locking member to also assume its normal position and lock the check to the car, the free end of the lever being held against movement by the catch.

The purpose of providing a plate 2 on the outside of the car 1s to prevent any one from cutting away the wood 'adjacent the hooked end of the locking member and removing the check.

From the construction disclosed taken in connection with the descri tion it is thought that the invention will e readily understood, without requiring a more expanded ex lanation.

aving described the invention what I claim is:

1. In lcombination with a car, a locking member having its outer end curved `inwardly, arranged to work through one side thereof, an operating lever pivoted within the car and attached at one end tothe inner end of the locking member and a catch arranged in the car in position to engage the free end of the lever.

2. In combination with a car, a locking member in the form of a hook extending through one side thereof, a casing arranged within the car andattached to said side in position to receive the inner or shank end of the locking member, an operating lever end to the inner end of the locking member,

and a catch arranged in the car in .position to engage the free end of the lever.

3. n combination with a car having an aperture in one side, a plate apertured at two points, said plate being arranged on the outer face of the apertured car in position to have one of its apertures register with that of said side, a lookin member comprising a straight body portion designed to extend through the aperture of the apertured side of the car and, through the registering aperture of said plate, and an outer curved end portion designed to extend through the other aperture of said plate, a casing attached to the inner face of the apertured side of the car in position to receive the inner end of the looking member, an operating lever pivoted Within the car and connected at one end to the inner end of the looking member, and a catch arranged in the car in position to engage the free end of the lever.

4. In combination With a ear having an aperture in one side, a plate apertured at two points, said plate being arranged on the outer face of the apertured side of the car in position to have one of its apertures register With that of said side, a locking member comprising a straight body portion designed to eX- tend through the aperture of the apertured i side of the ear and through the registering aperture of said plate, and an outer curved end portion designed to extend through the other aperture of the plate, an operating lever pivoted Within the ear and connected ,at one end to the inner end of the looking member, and a catch arranged in the ear in position to engage the free end of the lever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY S. BOUCHER. Witnesses:

N oAn BLoUGn, J. R. HAINEs. 

